and other ukrainian officials, as austin noted, his visit is another opportunity to confirm unwavering support for ukraine, which will continue despite growing opposition from republicans in congress. i would like to add that already on november 22, austin will hold the 17th meeting of the contact group on defense issues in the ramstein format. representatives of 50 countries are invited to it. thank you very much for this meeting and your visit, it is a very important signal for ukraine. we are grateful to the united states of america for your leadership and support for our people. thank you very much. the message i brought, sir president, that the usa is with you, we will be with you for a long time. what happens here in ukraine matters not only to you, but also to the rest of the world, and of course, matters to the united states of america. that is why the united states, our partners and allies will continue to work to ensure that ukraine can succeed. the ukrainian

defense forces continue to contain the enemy in the hottest areas of the front, near avdiivka and bakhmut. the russians are throwing more and more forces into the assaults, heavy battles continue and the enemy is unable to achieve significant success. we will ask tatyana for more details about all this final, which is now on the eastern front. tanya, hello, what is the situation, the latest news from the battlefield? good evening, oksana, we had a good night's sleep, but it's hot at the front, the situation near avdiivka remains difficult, despite the huge losses of the russians there, they are replenishing their units, recovering and continuing to advance, they want to surround the city, heavy fighting continues near the avdiivka industrial zone , the enemy is storming it, there is various information about certain successes of the russians, but our military is asking for no details here, and it is necessary to understand that with such an intensity of combat actions, one position can change

hands several times. the russians are also trying to sneak onto koksokhim, but our soldiers prevent them from doing so. the situation is tense in the steppe district in the north of avdiivka. the occupiers want to cut off the city from the road. our defenders burn their equipment, destroy the infantry and, with truly superhuman efforts , continue to hold back this influx. several times every day, the enemy drops air bombs weighing half a ton on avdiivka itself, and as the head of the city said, it seems that soon there will be no there will even be ruins left, then people will no longer be able to hide either in the entrances or in the basements, direct speech, another gift, they messed up the marking gardens, august of the 23rd year, well , it won't help them at all, of course the city is collapsing, the city is falling apart, they are trying to do something, but the village is being held together.

defense, unfortunately, many townspeople still remain in ovdiivka, we ask them to leave, in the direction of bakhmut, enemies are entering the districts of liberated andriivka and klisheivka, it is also very difficult for our soldiers there, we were witnesses how the drone operators extinguished the attempts of russian assaults on the approaches to the positions of the defense forces, burned their equipment and soldiers who were going to attack the bmp. also, in the north of bakhmut, the enemy is attacking, and even the rains that fell here last week and bahnyuk was in landings did not slow down or reduce those assaults and shelling. and he really searches, tries to find some weak areas where he can advance, where he can break the defense. it runs into, well, in principle, a soft defense all along the entire eastern front. meat assaults, they are the same.

are also happening, and the enemy has, well, in my opinion, an unlimited resource in manpower, much more artillery shelling, then i suggest you watch our material from ugledar about the city of primara, which the russians destroy every day, which is defended by the 72nd brigade of the black zaporozhets. why it is necessary to visit ughledar at night, even though it does not guarantee safety, can be seen right from the start. there is a crack on the car's windshield from an explosive dropped from a russian drone. the driver, who was driving at the time, was injured. that they don't even half a bucket of us met, it is easier to leave, it is already difficult to enter. another massive attack on the city was repulsed by the 72nd brigade in early november. then the russians advanced with a tank column. black zaporizhia were counted for 20 pieces of equipment, 17 were burned on the move. the first row.

there on a mine, or they destroy it, it doesn’t matter to him, to them, they push him away, and go on, like a column, all together, they destroy them, there the infantry climbs out, somewhere flees to a landing, then in the night the infantry itself goes without nothing and so constantly storms such thin ugledar - the dominant height that the enemy wants to capture for further advancement, the city is located near volnuvag, which the occupiers use as a major transport hub, so the russian military commanders, despite huge losses, are ready to continue to station their troops and equipment here. in the winter, they destroyed 155 there completely, even all the russian news said that it was no longer there, and also here they had the 14th of some kind... of the main intelligence office, it was also destroyed, even in wikipedia it is written that another cambrian died in pavlovka during the assaults, there were already many brigades here they fought against us, but no one has taken a coal mine yet, they can't take it, so they are razing it to

the ground, the mining town, once black underground with coal, is now scorched from the outside by artillery, rockets, bombs, every house is burnt black, destroyed. oh, the rocket, some hit the houses directly, destroying the house completely, some are like that, there is still a small remnant of the rocket down there. a pile of concrete, all that remained of a nine-story building after being hit by a guided aerial bomb. at first, only one central pod was completely destroyed later, already after the arrivals, the house was completely like this. churches and enemies did not spare either. well, the original russian orthodoxy, right? come here. everything and artillery and hail and aerial bombs. previously, more than 15,000 people lived in the coal mine, now there are several dozen left, hiding in the basements, every exit to the surface can be fatal. buzanova galina anatolivna. the date of death is august 5, 23rd

year, people are buried simply in their own yards. nearby, among the same ruins and graves, we bury them there in the garden, we already have them there five graves, well two, the truth died their own death, i killed them, the local residents have already forgotten what heating, light, water from the tap are, there is communication here and there, food is brought by volunteers, or soldiers share, a lot of firewood, well the coal is down there, they hauled coal, they mostly live alone, some of them stayed here, some even have some ... they buried their children here and they don’t want to leave, valery and i talk about life in the middle of the war, he shows us a photo from his wedding, he got married in the summer, his yana is a volunteer, they lived in the same place, but crossed paths on business

of the military, i need to assemble something, first-aid kits, turnstiles, the like, she helped me with this, that's how we met her, now is such a time that you don't need to think before... you don't need to make plans right away, valery has a daughter waiting at home, she is studying in a school with military training, maybe she won’t have to fight, no , of course she won’t have to, then we will win in time, you think, and of course, tatiana nakonechna and zakharkom, facts tv, the only news, the lives of two people were taken by morning shelling three more people were injured. according to local authorities, around 9 a.m. the russian army targeted the parking lot of a private transport company. two drivers died on the spot, an elderly wounded man was taken away by an ambulance. a neighboring house was also affected,

and a woman was taken to the hospital with a contusion and back injury. she was in her own apartment during the shelling. later , another civilian turned to medics for help . he was injured around 10 in the morning when there was an explosion. got to the shipping district of kherson. they are in russian captivity thousands of ukrainian civilians. the exact number is unknown. human rights defenders say that the number has exceeded 7 per cent. russia has already announced sentences to some. one of them is journalist serhii tsegip. he was convicted in the annexed crimea. it is much more difficult to release civilians than military personnel, because there are simply no relevant international conventions or a return algorithm. the last exchange, when it was possible to extract two more civilians, took place at the beginning of july. russia does not want to return ukrainians home, but, on the contrary, kidnaps them from the occupied territories more and more people in the territories. olena comes to meet us with a bunch of poems written by her husband. ukrainian journalist serhiy

tsegipa has been in russian captivity for over a year and a half. the interrogation is conducted by murlo from the fsb with the smile of an intellectual. he killed my body and brain with a current. irzhe is a call to the president, he told so veiledly about the fact that he was tortured by electric current. during the occupation of the new kakhovka, serhiy published information on social networks. about the situation in kherson oblast, albeit risky the activist did not hide his activities and volunteered at the same time. he was warned that he was being hunted. he was going from novaya kakhovka to tavriysk, he was stopped at the north crimean canal, there was a roadblock. olena learned from the prisoners, who miraculously managed to escape, that the occupiers detained serhiy and found pro-ukrainian posts in his phone. after that, the man was taken for questioning to the squint. said that everything was covered in blood on the floor, there were teeth, and bruises were lying around, which means that

they threatened him and demanded that he be there told what he was doing on the 17th, they were already in simferopol, at that time, it was still the first sezo, and then during the summer they arranged a second sezo and such political prisoners were transferred there. olena found out where the russians get their husbands thanks to human rights activists, later the occupiers accused serhiy of espionage. a court was held in temporarily occupied simferopol, where the journalist was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison. the last word serhiy said to the judges, the prosecutor, that i don't care how many years you give me? 20 or two years, because considering for poor nutrition, for lack of treatment. at his age of 62, every year could be his last. until serhiy

was staged in the simferopol prison, the couple could at least correspond, and the woman understood that her beloved was alive, but after the move, the connection with the prisoners often disappeared. we know about 150 places of detention, both in the temporarily occupied territories and in the russian federation, and unfortunately, this geography is it. just as big as the territory of the russian federation. at the beginning of july , ombudsman dmytro lobinets stated that there are probably more than 25,000 civilian hostages in russian captivity, at least that many missing persons. since the beginning of the great war, there have been 30 public exchanges. the last ones at the end of the summer and since then it's been quiet. in total, 144 civilians returned home. when there were exchanges of prisoners of war. then the representatives of ukraine and russia agreed that without exchanges, but they would return, well, a certain

number of civilians, but such a mechanism actually does not exist for a long time, those who broke away call their release, rather, a gift fate, elena was kidnapped by the occupiers from her native kamyanka, dniprovsk, zaporizhzhia region, because the neighbors thought that the man was a military man, they did not take you there, they scolded you a little and they will release you tomorrow, that's it. it's a torture chamber and it's almost impossible to get out of there alive, it's almost impossible, such a healthy 2-meter-tall man, a two-liter water bottle smashed my whole head , they gave me a closed brain injury, they strangled me, she was threatened with rape, shooting, and it was shown on propaganda tv channels, the russians arranged the production, as if the prisoners were being released home, you we carry out activities aimed at discrediting the authorities of the russian federation. in fact, they were sent to labor slavery to dig trenches for the people of rossermi. hell

lasted more than half a year. it was a great lucky coincidence that this happened and one of our people somehow managed to get in touch, and we arrived and the security forces let us go. now, russia simply does not hand over civilian prisoners. rights defenders are certain that this is an attempt to gain some benefit from the hostages in the future. and so far the only way for the russians to justify their crimes to the world kidnapping of ukrainians, convicting an innocent person on a fabricated case, as they did with serhiy tsegip, and about 10% of all civilian prisoners are like that. there is no established mechanism, although it is provided for by international humanitarian law, which obliges the country that captured civilians, and if there is a suspicion about these civilians, for example, that they were spies,

in the shortest possible time to conduct an inspection and release these people, there are no specific terms , how long such an inspection can last, according to the geneva convention, civilians during the war are protected and they cannot be captured, such an abnormal number of kidnapped people has never happened during any armed conflict, - say human rights defenders, that is why there is a single strategy... release does not exist yet, exchange is not a promising strategy, in my opinion, because there are no russian civilians who can be... exchanged, there were in the first weeks after the start of a full-scale invasion, these are russian sailors, truckers, but they have all returned to russia, to exchange for russian prisoners of war, this is not wants even russia. currently, the only way out for ukraine is to turn to international courts, to prove that long-term detention without grounds

is a violation of the convention against torture and ill-treatment, and also to initiate cases... against specific russian political leaders, this should at least somehow ease the conditions for obtaining hostages , and so far there are 763 ukrainians in the unified register of persons deprived of liberty, these are those whose stay in captivity is documented. according to human rights defenders , almost 700 civilians were captured and detained in the occupied territories continue olena ruvenchuk, dmytro kobzar and yevhen tur, the program vikne stb, marathon one. news. russians in ukraine lost billions of dollars worth of valuable equipment. rare s-400 complexes. the newest tanks have broken through the sun, burning our military drones from the sky deep into the enemy many kilometers from the front line. and when samples of expensive weapons still reach the engineers of the armed forces of ukraine, this means revealing

the secrets and weak points of the occupier. more information, inna gurinenko. over 300,000 losses of russian soldiers in ukraine, for in number, it already exceeded the population of such regional centers as belhor or kaluga, to count losses in meat assaults of serfs is not a gentleman’s business, otherwise with equipment and ammunition, for russians these are the most expensive losses in the war with ukraine, to replace them quickly, unlike manpower is difficult, and sometimes even impossible, especially when it comes to rare creations of the russian military industry. however , the general staff has no statistics. especially valuable equipment of the occupiers is not disclosed, they explain, such numbers are single, really, it is not it can be said that 100 tos were destroyed, there is sonepok, or also buratiyno, because they also have weapons, well, it is quite difficult to name such a number. the russians have suffered losses in rare equipment since the beginning of the full-scale offensive, one of the loud ones on march 22

near kiev, a beauty. at the beginning of the full-scale invasion , the armed forces of ukraine managed to get one of the units of this handsome radio-electronic warfare machine, but this was essentially a unique case, because the russians lived here in caravans, one such a machine allows, well, to turn off the electronics in your tanks, there your radio stations jam the communication, and you yourself understand, conducting hostilities without communication, well, this is a terrible situation, and this is how the tank burned in march in the mykolaiv region, this is the russian world is burning it was also reported about two such rare rocket-cannon complexes. since february 22, according to the general staff, the russians have already lost almost 5,500 tanks, half a hundred of them, according to analysts from the netherlands, a vaunted breakthrough. here is one of those, which fell into the hands of the engineers of the trophy weapons center of the armed forces of ukraine. they cannot always be drawn away

from the combat zone, well, you can imagine, artillery fire, or if there is some gray area, that is, it is always our fire. usually the enemy is like this... keeps units at a distance of at least 20 kilometers from the front line, and also carefully camouflages them, for the sake of preservation, despite this, ukrainian soldiers manage to take out with fire unique exhibits of the russian military industry, such as this rare c300 air defense battery, its in the summer burned the defense forces pivdna, or here is this s400, the main anti-aircraft missile system of the russian aerospace forces, our soldiers hit two of these near yevpatoria and on cape tarkhankut in the occupied crimea, these are enough, enough expensive systems, and the systems that even russia produces, yes, but it will not be possible to replace them quickly, since the summer there has been an increase in reports on the network from combat units about the destruction of rare vehicles of the occupiers, oops, sunspots, wish you health, in particular, it is known about

at least five destroyed enemy sunspots in the last four months , armed... and sunspots are not found in artillery , for example, in the troops of radiation chemical and biological protection, in flame-throwing units, shooting sunspots with vacuum ammunition, the enemy creates a gas cloud that poisons people for many kilometers around, sunspots are undoubtedly among the priority targets, and this system is well , enough, rare enough to destroy each of them, it is serious enough, but serious, because without the sun, the russians' ability to advance or hold the conquered lands decreases, undermining the combat capability of a certain subdivision, that is, actually specifically. area, as of 2018, because i have not come across more recent data, the russians had 72 such systems. according to orek publication of dutch analysts collecting data from open

sources as of february 22 in ukraine, the russians have already lost 13 solar cells and seven charging units for them. these are some kind of manipulator cranes, without them , the mission is impossible to insert the rocket into the cell on mount sontsepoka with the hands of vanok. this is a truly unique technique that has a complex high-tech production process, electronics are also mentioned there that it is imported, and not produced by the russian federation itself. so it's even better when such rare samples end up in the hands of the engineers of the armed forces of ukraine, they take them apart. we can investigate whether it actually meets the characteristics that the russian federation claims, this is the first point. the second point is that we can investigate how to deal with it effectively. this is how, for example, this rare car of the commander of the cannonade complex was investigated. it was a great luck, because they were able to get such a car. in honda counteroffensive actions in of the kharkiv region last year, that is , why is it difficult to find such a car, you will not have it directly on the line of combat.

losses of russian equipment in ukraine are already calculated in billions of us dollars , however, it is wrong to evaluate rare weapons exclusively in terms of money, so when looking at another video on the network of a burnt sunflower or other pride of the second world army, let's remember that this is an acquired and dearly paid for commodity. true advantage of our defenders on the front line. inna gurinenko, yevhen zuzulya, viktor zelenko, the window program stb marathon only news. every day, ukrainian lands are mined with new and new explosive devices, the enemy mines, or to slow down the counteroffensive of the ukrainian army , our soldiers mine in order to lay a defensive line. hundreds of sappers from various divisions and branches of the military work in the liberated territories. one of them is the state special transport service. currently, they have both assault units and sapper units, which are still demining kharkiv oblast, which was de-occupied more than a year ago. today, they

work along the route from chogoguyev to kupyansk. the front line was here last year. ukraine became the second in the world in the number of victims against anti-personnel mines, ahead only of syria. one of the most humid regions, say seper, is kharkiv region, and not only. anti-personnel mines, on this very field we have already removed about 560 anti-tank mines, a tm-62 p3 mine, a plastic mine, by the way, it has a very weak signal, because it has a plastic one, a detonator, a metal detector signal, you mean, yes, he is weak, but we know him, the sappers launch the quadcopter, first the field from the sky, this regiment in the state the special transport service was created only in march 22, they have their storm unit, there is a sapper, ivan, he left

donetsk in 2014 and last year, the war overtook him in kyiv, and he volunteered, i have a small child, and i want, well, our territory to be safe, and this is interesting , very hard work. the field where they are currently working is interesting, it has not been sown, it has not been cultivated for two years , the grass is waist-deep, before passing with a metal detector, the sappers feel every centimeter with their fingers like this, then they start ordinary garden shears and only after this special equipment, if the minesweeper shows there, there is something, some signal, we have such a thing, it is called a pinpointer, it is more accurate. and after that, with such a probe, with which they can already touch the promise of mines. sashko, before he received the summons, worked

as a dj in kyiv. there are no ambulances, we are blocking the road, we literally need two minutes to get there, well, the road must be blocked in order to detonate the collected explosives. everyone get ready, groups, please finish their work, the explosive wave and flight will be enough strong, and the traffic on this track is brisk. it was set off by three anti-tank mines and one mortar. to collect all this, well, we raise much more per day. that is, it was an undermining of what was collected not even in a day, but less. no, it's in 20 minutes. this is the commander of the levelers, ernest, he has his own volunteer center. ernest shows a frog mine, it is an ozm-72, which is installed on stretchers. it has 2,500 rolling pins. in the radius. from 25 m, destroys all living things, jumps to a height of about 60-90 cm to kill at the waist, it's at such a stretch, did your brothers in cheesecloth blow up in the summer?

yes, just like that, one went in, the other brother approached and stepped on the stretcher, they pulled him over, it was our platoon commander, there were two dead and one wounded, that's right, i remember, two, and another one was found near the car, also a fragment of popavon abdomen , three children were recently blown up, and those who got caught in the tourniquet, two, one child is in serious condition, this mine, she, does not leave... any chance for a person to survive. they have already demined kharkiv oblast, sumy oblast, mykolaiv oblast, kherson oblast, just on the contact line, they were the first to enter the raisins and demined the bodies of the occupiers. the best reward, they say, is to see the fields you cleared yourself last year planted. according to your observations, to what extent is kharkiv oblast prohibited compared to other regions where you worked? but everywhere, where,

everywhere, where. the dream stood, wherever they dug in, in principle, there is no difference, i don't see much, maria malevska, oleksandr brynza, the vikna program, stb, single news. there are sayings that have become not just aphorisms, but much more - passwords. each of them has an author, but they have become popular. they live their own life, and sometimes receive an extension. i received this today. continuation of the legendary aphorism: ukraine is not russia, 20 years later, this is the name of the new book by the friend of the president of ukraine, leonid kuchma, whose presentation was attended by oksana mykhailova. in 2014, russian terrorists demonstratively shot this book: for betraying the russian people. and in 2023, she was found charred at the site of

a russian anti-ship missile hitting a high-rise building in dnipro. so this shot is on the cover of leonid kuchma's new book ukraine is not russia 20 years later. i looked at the photo and mentally wished that the unknown reader of my book, in the house it was in, would survive in the midst of that hell, and still looking at the burnt book, i thought, what was on those pages, what was in those lines that burned russia. suddenly i thought, there was exactly what i wrote to the russians, when i still believed that it was possible to talk to them normally, to explain something to them, and now it has burned down, that's all, this is the main difference of the new edition ukraine is not russia, 20 years therefore the author tried to explain something to the russians, to convince them why we are two separate nations and why they

should accept it. but the russians' disgraceful support for a large-scale invasion of ukraine showed that it was futile to explain anything to them . therefore, in the new edition of the book, everything addressed to the understanding of russians has been thrown out. instead, the author's reflections on the current times appeared, an analysis of what came true and what did not from his predictions. this is how the essence and meaning of the new book are perceived by its first readers who gathered for the presentation today in kyiv. when we talk about this book, you know, i'm very i am glad that such chapters are included in the book, self-identity, and after self-identity, the nation immediately follows, it is 2003, the current president of ukraine, yes, he writes and publishes the book ukraine is not russia, yes, today these are obvious things, but at the time, it sounded very challenging , leonid danylovich was right, was and

remains right, ukraine is not russia. this is also a prophecy, and unfortunately, in today 's tragic times of our history, we did not read your book to the end, and we did not read the interval, period, today we understand that ukraine is not russia, and the book was indeed full prophecies, and some of them began to come true literally from... weeks after her release. in september 2003, the first attempt of russia's hybrid aggression against ukraine took place, the conflict around tuzla island. it was no accident, yes, and it was russia’s reaction to your book and to the fact that ukraine is asserting itself and will develop as an independent state, and russia was already trying to